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    EX-ARMENIAN DEPUTY PROSECUTOR WHO BACKED OPPOSITION GETS 3-YEAR PRISON TERM

    Interfax
    March 23 2009
    Russia

    A Yerevan court has sentenced former Deputy Armenian Prosecutor General
    Gagik Dzhangiryan to three years of imprisonment, press secretary of
    the Armenian Court of Appeal Alina Yengolyan told Interfax on Monday.

    Dzhangiryan was found guilty of offering resistance when he was
    arrested. Dzhangiryan's term of imprisonment started on February 23,
    2008, the day he was arrested.

    The arrest followed his announcement at the February 22 opposition
    rally that he supported the opposition and that the presidential
    election that took place on February 19, 2008 were falsified. Former
    Armenian President Robert Kocharian decreed to dismiss Dzhangiryan
    on February 23, 2008.

    The Armenian opposition led by former Armenian President Levon Ter-
    Petrosian staged a rally last February, which evolved into clashes
    with police on March 1 in which ten people were killed and over 250
    were injured.
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